Challenges in Securing UAV IoT Framework: Future Research Perspective

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer the immense capability for allowing novel applications in a variety of domains including security, military, surveillance, medicine, and traffic monitoring. The prevalence of UAV systems is due to the collaboration and accomplishment of tasks efficiently and effectively. UAVs embedded with camcorders, GPS receivers, and wireless sensors propose enormous promise in realizing the Internet of Things (IoT) service delivery in vast domains. It results in establishing an airborne field of the IoT when empowered with communication protocols of LTE, 4G, and 5G/6G networks. However, numerous difficulties must be addressed before UAVs may be used effectively namely privacy, security, and administration. Conspicuously, in the current article, novel UAV-specific domains enabled by IoT and 5G/6G technology are explored. Moreover, the presented technique assesses sensor requirements and provides an overview of fleet management systems that address aerial networking, privacy, and security concerns. Furthermore, a framework based on the IoT-5G/6G aspect is proposed which can be deployed over UAVs. Finally, in a heterogeneous computational platform, the proposed framework provides a complete IoT architecture that enables secure UAVs.